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The Salvation Army’s award winning “40:20” ReUse Organisation has reached another milestone in its 6 year history. This week saw it undertake its 10,000th collection of furniture and other items in the Perth & Kinross area. This equates to around 730 tonnes of items collected and reused that would otherwise have gone to landfill. In return, as well as being available to anyone and everyone for their furniture needs, we are pleased to be able to self-fund discounts for people referred to us by local Social Welfare Providers which has totalled around £71,000 over the last 6 years.

The donor on this occasion was Mrs Anderson from Bridge of Earn who was donating a mattress that she no longer needed. Current project manager Daniel Rous presented Mrs Anderson with a certificate and flowers to celebrate this milestone. Mrs Anderson said “I’ve given often to your project so this is wonderful to be recognised in this way. The flowers are beautiful. I’m just happy to support what you are doing.” Also present were one of the projects collection teams (Driver, Alan Robertson and Future Jobs Fund employee, Sam Wells) together with the new manager of “40:20”, Jim Robertson who will take over the reins of this project next week.

Receiving the mattress from Mrs Robertson

The Collection team loading the mattress on the van

Mr Rous, who officially leaves at the end of October after seeing the project from birth to its current status as a nationally recognised force for good in ReUsing furniture and delivering employability and volunteering services, said “whilst I am sad to be moving on from this great project, it is fitting that I leave it at such a milestone. I also know that this project will continue to grow and am convinced that Jim Robertson is the right person to take them on further.”

The project is based on the North Muirton Industrial Estate of Perth and is open Monday to Friday 9am to 4pm and on Saturdays from 9am to 3pm. More information can be found at http://www.safurniture.org.uk

Our manager has taken a tough decision and decided it is time for someone else to take the ReUse Organisation on to the next stage of its existence. So, we’re looking to replace him and fast! He is with us until October 15 but the closing date for applications is September 3. Click the link below to get the job advert and if you think you are the person for the job, or know someone that is, then follow the adverts instructions and we wish you the best of luck.

Well we survived our party! A great time was had and a full report will follow later. But we wanted to share some pictures of the evening with you. There’s a couple here and the rest can be accessed by clicking this link.

Thanks again to all who came – customer, social welfare partners, friends etc. Thanks to our guest speakers – John Swinney MSP (Cabinet Sec for Finance & Sustainable Growth); Councillor Alan Grant (Environment Convener for Perth & Kinross Council); Lt Cols Alan and Alison Burns (Salvation Army East Scotland Regional Leaders). And thanks to all who offer support to this project in whatever way that may be.

As part of our anniversary celebrations, we are very grateful to the local media for their continued support. As such, you can hear our manager, Daniel Rous, live on Perth FM (listen online at www.perthfm.co.uk) at around 10.25am on Thursday 1 July. We’ll podcast the recording on this blog as soon as we get the files. Also, Tay FM (listen online at www.tayfm.co.uk) are carrying out prerecorded interviews with staff which will be used in their news bulletins all day on Friday 2 July.

Also, at our celebratory event, photographers from the Perthshire Advertiser and The Courier will be with us to take pictures of the event, along with our own photographer too. We’ll upload those as soon as possible too.

Without local support from the community and the media, we would not be where we are today so, again, a huge thankyou to everyone.

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Join us at our warehouse in Kilda Place, Perth, on Friday 2 July from 5-7pm, as we celebrate our 6th anniversary. There’ll be a buffet, the official launch of our new logo and website, news of future plans, plus guest speakers: John Swinney MSP; Environment Convener Councillor Alan Grant (Perth & Kinross Council); Lieut-Col Alan Burns (The Salvation Army Scotland Secretary). Join us as we say thankyou to the Perth & Kinross communities for your support over the last 6 years.